Analysis of Dandelion



Flourishing
Blades of grass have
no match
Erupting
Like volcanic ash
Staring back at the
sun
with
effulgent yellow
shafts of
it's own.
Shine Dandelion, Shine


Scheme ABCADEFGHIJK
Poetic Form
Metre 100 1111 11 10 10101 10110 1 1 110 11 11 11001
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 146
Words 26
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 11
Words per line (avg) 2
Letters per stanza (avg) 129
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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Submitted on October 15, 2009

Modified on March 05, 2023

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